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Getting Started with Home Assistant Webhooks & Writing to InfluxDB

If you’re already running or are familiar with Home Assistant, you’ve likely worked with integrations, maybe a few automations, and possibly MQTT as a way to wire devices together. But webhooks add another layer of flexibility that lets you level up your smart home into a fully-customized, intelligent network. Instead of relying on built-in integrations and being confined to the same local network, you can let external devices and services push events directly into Home Assistant.

AI Powered IT Operations & Autonomous Resilience | Full SolarWinds Day Q2 2026 Event Replay

Watch the full SolarWinds Day 2026 event on-demand and discover how AI is transforming IT operations, observability, and incident response. In this exclusive event, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna and product leaders unveil the company’s vision for Autonomous Operational Resilience—powered by AI, automation, and unified visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The $600 billion wake-up call: New Splunk research reveals downtime is a systemic business crisis

600 billion annual impact: Aggregate downtime costs for the Global 2000 have soared 50% in two years. $15,000 per minute: The average cost of downtime for organisations, highlighting the immediate financial impact of service disruptions. 3.4% stock price drop: The average decline in shareholder value following a single downtime incident.

The 5 Hats We Wear During Code Review

If you are a software developer or engineer, you most likely have to do code review. At the bare minimum, you probably have had your pull requests reviewed. If you haven’t, then you are probably curious about how the rest of the world deals with the process. In general, we use code review to make sure we are shipping high quality code that does what it’s supposed to and is easy to maintain. That’s the goal, at least. In practice, code review can get messy.

Enhanced Predictive AI suite, Google AI Studio integration, and more!

������ �������������� ������������ ���� ��������! We're a month into the year, and it’s already been an exciting start for ServiceDesk Plus. From expanding our AI provider integrations—which now include Google AI Studio alongside OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and our own hosted LLM—to enhancing our Predictive AI suite, we’re excited to share some exciting updates to the cloud version of ServiceDesk Plus.

Upcoming CMDB enhancements and a quick roundup on everything you can unlock with Zia

������ ���������������� ������������ ���� ��������! In the latest episode of ServiceDesk Plus Premiere, we’ll uncover some interesting enhancements coming soon to the cloud version. We will be focusing on what can easily be considered the single source of truth for your IT estate: The CMDB. From setting baseline configurations to track and measure the evolution of your CIs to gaining a bird’s-eye view with the all-new CMDB dashboard, there’s a lot in store.

Significant CMDB enhancements: Baselines, Data Policies, Integration Mapping, and more!

������ ���������� ������������ ���� ��������! In the latest episode of ServiceDesk Plus Premiere, we are happy to announce that the CMDB enhancements we teased last month are now generally available—from baseline configurations and data quality policies to the all-new CMDB dashboard. The CMDB story does not stop there! We have also added powerful new capabilities like Integration Mapping, which lets you filter and work with CIs based on the specific integration they came from, whether that is ManageEngine OpManager, Applications Manager, or Site24x7, so tune in to see what else is new.